A promise kept
Over all those years It was Christmas Eve 2003. And in what — I realize in retrospect — was an astonishing lack of understanding of the town where I’d arrived mid-afternoon, I drove into Staunton, Virginia, to take my older sister Diana to a holiday...Coming up: December 2025-January 2026
Upcoming presentations It’s beginning to look a lot like … the end of another year. Yep, things are finally winding down for 2025 here at The Legal Genealogist — and ramping up for 2026. So here’s a look at what’s coming up on the...In the final analysis…
What really matters In the nearly 13 years that The Legal Genealogist has been writing, death has come to visit far too many times. It’s taken three of my mother’s siblings in those years: my Aunt Carol in 2012.1 My Uncle Jerry in 2016.2 My Uncle David in...Veteran’s Day 2025
Honoring the forgotten veteran So many of The Legal Genealogist’s family members are being honored today in the United States. Today. November 11. Veterans Day. First proclaimed in November 1919 by President Wilson,1 Armistice Day became a national holiday by...Coming up: November-December 2025
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit. It’s the first of November. Yeah, really, already. The clocks roll back tomorrow, everything everywhere is pumpkin spice, and … sigh … Christmas displays have been in stores for weeks already yet....A raw apology
There was a little girl Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good, She was very very good, And when she was bad, she was horrid. Yep. That pretty much sums up The Legal Genealogist’s view of auto-mailer technology....Coming up: October-November 2025
Upcoming presentations October 1. Already. Sheesh. Three fourths of the year gone, and it doesn’t seem possible that we’re already — what — 10 days or so officially into the fall season in the Northern Hemisphere — and spring Down Under....Year 24… never forget…
24 years later… It was 24 years ago today. A stunningly beautiful day, one of those early fall days in the northeast that fills your heart with joy as you inhale the crisp morning air under deep blue skies with brilliant sunshine. A day on which, you might have...Coming up: August-September 2025
Upcoming presentations We are right in the Dog Days of summer in the United States these days, aren’t we? Long hot sultry days, flashy afternoon thunderstorms, humidity enough to curl straight hair and straighten curly hair. Hard to believe it’s already...Subscribe by Email
